Acoustic Prince
IntermediateNew!
Tuesday with Chris Corsale
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Let's go crazy on acoustic learning the songs and stylings of the Purple one.
Specialty & Technique Guitar Classes
Go beyond the basics and learn the nuts and bolts of music.
If you can already play guitar, now it's time to get into the groove. With the guidance of our expert teaching artists, expand your skills and repertoire to open the wide world of guitar beyond the basics.
For intermediate players and beyond, open to students who have completed the Guitar 2 level and above. (If you're not sure where your skills fit in, visit our placement quiz.)
We suggest all guitar students consider starting with Guitar Fingerboard Theory, if you want to work on lead guitar or eventually write your own songs. It's a great primer into a wider world of musicianship.
Bass Groove Lab
Intermediate
Monday with Harlan Terson
60 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $152 ($142 members)
An hour long lab to make you “badder”
Extended Play
Intermediate
Tuesday, Thursday or Friday with Mary Peterson, Chris Winters or Elaine Moore
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Make a long term commitment to improving your guitar playing skills
Guitar 4ever with Holstein
Advanced
Saturday with Ed Holstein
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
The one and only legendary folk icon, Ed Holstein holds court for acoustic guitarists.
Guitar and Vocal Studio
Intermediate
Tuesday or Wednesday with Elaine Moore, Rebecca Toon or Chris Corsale
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Grab that guitar and sing and play with others.
RPA Ensemble aka Dawson's Guitar 4Ever
Advanced
Thursday with Steve Dawson
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
A group of 4ever students under Dawson's leadership
Introduction to Jazz Guitar
Intermediate
Wednesday with Tony do Rosario
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
No matter what genre of music you play, this class will take your playing to a whole other level.
Guitarra En Español 1
Beginner
Wednesday with Jose Murillo
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
A bilingual experience developing basic skills in Latin style playing. Una experiencia bilingüe que desarrolla maneras básicas de tocar el estilo latino.
Guitarra En Español 2
Intermediate
Wednesday with Jose Murillo
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
A bilingual experience building repertoire in Latin music. Una experiencia bilingüe que desarrolla el repertorio de la música latina.
Basics of Electric Chicago Blues Guitar
Intermediate
If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Building Chord Vocabulary
Intermediate
Friday with Dan Fulkerson
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Let's go beyond bar chords and learn to respond fearlessly to any chart.
Guitar Fingerboard Theory
Intermediate
Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Sunday with Dan Fulkerson, Randy Morris, Jimmy Tomasello or Steve Levitt
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
This class is highly recommended for all guitar students. Make it a point to enroll at some point in your musical journey.
Lead Guitar Basics
Intermediate
This and other musicianship classes are offered in rotation thru the year. If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Rhythm Guitar
Intermediate
Monday with Dan Fulkerson
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Focus on one of the most essential elements of playing guitar and music itself.
Essential Blues-Rock Electric Guitar 1 Skills
Intermediate
Sunday with Chris Winters
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Expand techniques and your personal riff artillery within the framework of songs and progressions in the blues/rock idiom.
Essential Blues-Rock Electric Guitar Repertoire
Advanced
Sunday with Chris Winters
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
An ongoing class which develops repertoire in the blues/rock genre.
Acoustic Slide Guitar 1
Intermediate
Donna is taking the Summer Session off. She'll return Session 5 which kicks off after Labor Day.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Acoustic Slide Guitar 2
Intermediate
Sunday with Donna Herula
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Continue to add emotion and feel to your slide guitar playing
Blues Guitar Basics 1
Beginner
This and other musicianship classes are offered in rotation through the year. If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Blues Guitar Basics 2
Intermediate
Tuesday with Steve Levitt
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Begin to improvise and learn more unique forms of the blues style.
Classical Guitar Basic Repertoire
Intermediate
Monday with Jacob Sweet
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Fun easy pieces to add pizzazz to your style.
Introduction to Fingerpicking
Intermediate
This and other musicianship classes are offered in rotation thru the year. If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Fingerpicking 1 Repertoire
Intermediate
Thursday or Saturday with Randy Morris
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Your fingers can be trained to be an orchestra - a band in the hand.
Fingerstyle Repertoire
Intermediate
Thursday with Randy Morris
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Develop a songbag of solo accompaniments and instrumentals in a variety of styles.
Jazz Guitar 1
Intermediate
Saturday with Tony do Rosario
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Take your time to absorb the fundamentals of jazz guitar.
Jazz Guitar 2
Advanced
Wednesday or Saturday with Tony do Rosario
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Build your repertoire from session to session.
Early Country Guitar 1
Intermediate
If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Early Country Guitar 2
Intermediate
This and other musicianship classes are offered in rotation thru the year. If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Electric Guitar Styles Overdrive
Intermediate
Tuesday or Wednesday with Dan Fulkerson
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Enhancement medication for the electric guitarist.
Hard Rock and Metal Unplugged
Intermediate
Thursday with Dan Fulkerson
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
All the licks, all the tricks - but with minimal hearing loss.
Introduction to Electric Guitar Styles
Intermediate
If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Introduction to Electric Slide Guitar
Intermediate
If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Flatpicking 1 - Rhythm
Intermediate
Tuesday with Chris Walz
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Get a grip on your pick and work your rhythm chops.
Flatpicking 2 - Technique
Intermediate
Tuesday with Chris Walz
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Let's get melodic
Flatpicking 3 - Repertoire
Advanced
Tuesday with Chris Walz
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Let's develop soloing skills over classic repertoire.
Acoustic Blues Guitar 1
Beginner
This class alternates every other session with level 2. If you would like to discuss options, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Acoustic Blues Guitar 2
Intermediate
Saturday with Paul Kaye
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Continue working on the music of great traditional blues artists.
Blues Fingerstyle 1
Beginner
This class alternates every session with Blues Fingerstyle 2. Mark your calendar and be sure to sign up next session.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Blues Fingerstyle 2
Intermediate
Monday with Chris Walz
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Take the fingerpicking, rhythms and regional styles of the country Blues you've learned in level 1, and concentrate on open tunings and bottleneck slide in level 2.
Blues Fingerstyle 3: Decades of Acoustic Blues
Advanced
Monday with Chris Walz
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Session 3 will be the 1930's Country Blues in the Depression.
Introduction to Brazilian Guitar
Intermediate
If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Introduction To Flamenco Guitar
Beginner
This class is offered on a rotating basis.
If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Flamenco Guitar 1 Skills
Beginner
Wednesday with Mehran Jalili
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Develop a catalog of strums and styles necessary to play flamenco.
Flamenco Guitar 2 Repertoire
Intermediate
Wednesday with Mehran Jalili
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Develop a strong repertoire in this exciting musical idiom.
Chicago Blues Electric Guitar Day Clinic
WorkshopIntermediateNew!
Friday with Steve Doyle, Chris Winters or Steve Hutchins
360 minutes · Once a week for 1 week · $100 ($90 members)
Three separate mini-courses designed to enhance rhythm and lead guitar skills.
Contemporary Slide Guitar
Intermediate
If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Advancing Guitar: Licks and Tricks
AdvancedNew!
Tuesday with John Mead
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Learn approaches to the fingerboard designed to improve your playing
James Taylor Guitar Styles
IntermediateNew!
Monday with Steve Levitt
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
For over 5 decades Taylor has been the template of a singer-songwriter. Come study his methodology.
Beatles Fingerstyle Guitar
Intermediate
Monday with Michael Miles
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
Country Guitar Old & New
Intermediate
Wednesday with Aaron Smith
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
Electric Blues Guitar: Texas Style
Intermediate
This and other musicianship classes are offered in rotation thru the year. If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
First Base Bottleneck Blues: Intro to Slide Guitar
WorkshopBeginner
Saturday with Donna Herula
90 minutes · Once a week for 1 week · $25 ($24 members)
Four Fundamental Fingerpicking Patterns
BeginnerNew!
Saturday with Randy Morris
80 minutes · Once a week for 4 weeks · $101 ($96 members)
Guitar Study Hall
Open to All
Monday or Wednesday with Steve Levitt
60 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $0 ($0 members)
A free Q & A with one of the school's renown guitar gurus. COME BY AND WE'LL HELP PLACE YOU IN THE PROGRAM
How to Strum (Nearly) Anything
IntermediateNew!
Tuesday with Michael O'Toole
80 minutes · Once a week for 4 weeks · $101 ($96 members)
Learn the basics of rhythm and tempo applied to your strumming instrument
3 Kings of the Blues
Intermediate
Thursday with Steve Hutchins
80 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $202 ($192 members)
BB, Freddy and Albert
Make it Electric! Guitars, Amps and Pedals
WorkshopOpen to AllNew!
Sunday with Charles Kim
90 minutes · Once a week for 1 week · $25 ($24 members)
Paul Simon Fingerstyle Classics
WorkshopIntermediateNew!
Saturday with Michael Henson
90 minutes · Once a week for 1 week · $25 ($24 members)
Strumming While Singing
IntermediateNew!
Tuesday with Michael O'Toole
80 minutes · Once a week for 4 weeks · $101 ($96 members)
The principles taught in this class can be applied to any style
Play By Ear
Intermediate
This and other musicianship classes are offered in rotation thru the year. If you would like to be contacted when this class runs again, please email Guitar Program Manager Jimmy Tomasello with your contact information.
60 minutes · Once a week for 8 weeks · $152 ($142 members)
Private Lesson Options
Our private lessons like our group classes run in 8-week sessions, however, you can begin private lessons during any week in the session. Please call our customer service folks at 773.728.6000 to register as private lesson availability is based upon individual teacher schedules.
Lessons are scheduled weekly, for 30, 45 or 60 minutes, and are available every day of the week at our Lincoln Square and Lincoln Park locations. Our experienced and professional faculty will work with you to develop an individualized program that helps you achieve your musical goals.
Stop in at either location or call the front desk at 773.728.6000 to register.
8-week Session Prices
$288 for 30 minutes ($278 for members)
$416 for 45 minutes ($401 for members)
$536 for 60 minutes ($516 for members)
Session & Registration Dates
8-week lessons: 04/30/2018 – 06/24/2018
Monday 03/26/18: Re-registration for current students begins
Monday 04/09/18: Transfer registration
Wednesday 04/11/18: Open registration
8-week lessons: 06/25/2018 – 08/19/2018
Monday 05/21/18: Re-registration for current students begins
Monday 06/04/18: Transfer registration
Wednesday 06/06/18: Open registration
Teachers
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